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- From: billj@dvlmarv.uucp (Bill Jones)
-
- In article <8188@ut-sally.UUCP> you write:
- > However, cpio was not available outside AT&T
- > before the release of System III, while tar was in
- > wide use with Version 7 and is still much more common.
-
- My memory is fuzzy now, but I recall cpio having been distributed on
- the V7 addendum tape, whose other contents were (I think) fsck, the
- line printer driver, and a c2 cured of certain overoptimism. (This is
- a nit picked for historical accuracy only: I believed then, and still
- do, that tar is the better format. I'm not even keen that this should be
- posted, especially if you cannot verify the assertion.)
- [ Can anybody verify this? -mod ]
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